All Primary care articles – Page 258
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Mental health focus for humanitarian agencies
New guidelines to address the mental health needs of survivors of conflict and disaster have been agreed.
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Poor access costs businesses
Rigid and inflexible GP services are costing workers and businesses millions of pounds every year, according to the Confederation of British Industry.Restricted opening hours, difficulty in booking forward appointments and the limited range of services on offer cost theUKeconomy an estimated£1bn and 3.5 million working days a year, it says.The ...
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HSJ Knowledge
A look at long-term care
The national framework for NHS continuing healthcare comes into force on 1 October. Eve Francis gives a legal perspective on the implications of the framework for PCTs and NHS trusts and the pros and cons of the new regime
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Two million babies screened for hearing
Two million babies inEnglandwill have had their hearing screened thanks to the NHS newborn hearing screening programme, the Department of Health has announced.The programme, which was rolled out across England in 2001, screens 1,700 babies each day.
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Wanless warns of spending 'hell'
The NHS faces a 'hell of a job' after failing to deliver major advances in productivity and public health, Sir Derek Wanless has told HSJ.
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Comment
Michael White on former health secretary Stephen Dorrell
When I rang him he said the NHS has 'gone full circle' since Labour came in and abolished the internal market in 1997
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Potential return to huge debt in three years' time
The man who laid the ground for the massive spending boost to the NHS has warned that the service could be up to £15.2bn short again in three years.
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PCTs fall short on consulting
Primary care trusts need to provide leadership training to professional executive committees and have a strategy to consult with patients, the Commons public accounts committee has concluded.
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'Outdated' IT systems raise MPs' concerns
Hospitals have been forced to rely on increasingly outdated IT systems because of delays in implementing a major part of the national programme for IT, the Commons health select committee has warned.
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Comment
Patient involvement can help siphon control from the centre
The government has raised the question of the health service's democratic deficit.
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BUPA expected to provide 'external support' for PCT
Hillingdon primary care trust is set to name BUPA as the company it plans to use to help it commission services under the Department of Health's external commissioner list, HSJ has learned.
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Public expecting too much as spending cuts approach
Local managers need more accountability and stronger support from politicians when making tough decisions, a think tank has claimed.
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Alliance: PBC will transform health service
The NHS Alliance has given practice-based commissioning a vote of confidence in a report released today.Alliance chair Dr Michael Dixon said PBC was going to transform the NHS but there has been a slow start due to primary care trust reconfiguration.He warned the policy would not go far enough if ...
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Bradshaw calls for action to fix primary care democratic deficit
Health minister Ben Bradshaw has raised the prospect of a shake-up of local governance after he issued a warning that there is a 'problem' with primary care trusts' accountability to their patients.
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Joint project to reduce falls in patients
According to a new study, closer working between pharmacy and physiotherapy services may improve care for older people at risk of falls.Research carried out at Guy's and St Thomas' foundation trust found that many older patients who have fallen would benefit from having their medicines reviewed.
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chan wheeler
The new commercial director at the Department of Health has committed himself to breaking down barriers and creating a level playing field in the NHS to enable the independent sector to provide care.Speaking at the inaugural annual conference on the independent sector Chan Wheeler delivered his first public address after ...
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New study claims that the pill may cut cancer risk
The contraceptive pill may reduce the risk of cancer for most women, according to a study published by the British Medical Journal.
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Call for HIV test kit review
The Terrence Higgins Trust is urging the government to change the law and allow people to buy and use home test kits for HIV.
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Roadmap
Junior health minister Lord Darzi's polyclinics have received yet more criticism from clinicians as the Royal College of GPs has published its vision of the future.The Roadmap joins the British Medical Association and the NHS Alliance in criticising the term polyclinics and suggests an alternative model.The report says: 'We caution ...
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Maggie Rae
The head of the local delivery and health inequalities unit has become the latest senior Department of Health employee to return to the frontline.Maggie Rae has become the director of health at Wiltshire primary care trust.Ms Rae was seconded to the DoH for two years from the National Institute for ...